About Douglas Bonneville

Douglas has been a graphic designer since 1992, in addition to software developer and author. He is a member of Smashing Magazine's "Panel of Experts" and has contributed to over 100 articles. He is the author of "The Big Book of Font Combinations", loves cats, and plays guitar.

Indeed. Souvenir is one of those faces that has so much personality of its own, that people like me (whose typographic sensibilities may be better than the average bear, but well short of your own) would find it hard to pair harmoniously with another. I think I need to buy The Big Book of Font Combinations!

@ Keith: My thought is, given certain contexts, you can find a way to make most any fonts work with each other. Maybe not in a heading / body relationship, but in some kind of role-based way in a design. They might need a separation of white space, or a great difference in point size, etc., but there is some way to make even the worst apparent options work something out.